Reb Bradley: Born Liberal, Raised Right

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Have we talked about Reb Bradley before? Apparently he is another advocate of baby-beating (under 1 year) for anything less than instant obedience. A few years back, he wrote some kind of confession that is his methods hadn't worked, but at the same time he re-issued his book "Baby BeatingChild Training Tips".

Natalie Klejwa of Visionary Womanhood is a big fan, she posted 2 articles lifted straight from WorldNutDaily on his book, Born Liberal, Raised Right.

visionarywomanhood.com/reb-bradleys-born-liberal-raised-right/

visionarywomanhood.com/born-liberal-raised-right-review/

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“Liberals are like teenagers whose will-to-be-gratified was never subdued, and now cannot grasp the simple logic of what is being said to them,†Bradley writes. “They are so emotionally obsessed with getting what their hearts want that they are unwilling to listen to reason. That is why liberals resort to personal attacks, name-calling, accusing, yelling, discrediting, or changing the subject. And that is why they use inflammatory and emotionally charged words like ‘intolerant,’ ‘hateful’ and ‘racist.’ Desperation ensues when passion rules. When passion rules, blindness sets in.â€

As a result, Bradley says “America is being governed by adults still in their terrible twos.â€

Bwahahahahahahahaha! Remember, this is quoted from WorldNutDaily, the high-class publication which promoted the fake birth certificate conspiracy, and recently hired an airplane to trail a banner saying "Where's the Real Birth Certificate" over Cowboy Stadium and then reported on it as if it were a real news event and not something they themselves instigated! The newspaper which would be entirely blank if you removed "personal attacks, accusing, yelling, discrediting".

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So the people who are bringing attention to our nation's problems are childish? Yes, it would be easier to pretend that most problems go away if people just follow a simple solution-work harder. However, there are many people who work very hard and still can't make ends meet. Our world's problems are complex and can't be fixed with black and white thinking.

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America is increasingly lacking in-self control, explains Bradley. He says adults no longer restrain themselves from destructive actions and behaviors, because they have not been taught to do so as children.

What world is he living in? There have always been people who have engaged in destructive behaviors. The difference is today we are less likely to push those problems under the rug.

“A few decades ago, people were just as human as we are in this decade,†he writes

Duh

“Like us, they got angry, they lusted, they coveted, and they drowned their grief by one means or another. But in one important way, they were different from us – they had greater self-control. Because they were more self-restraining, they did not allow themselves to be ruled by their anger; hence the murder rate was markedly less. They lusted, but they had greater sexual self-restraint, so had sexual contact with fewer people and contracted fewer STDs. They coveted other people’s money and possessions, but they had the ability to not act on their covetousness; hence fewer were compelled to steal. In the last 40 years we have lost the virtue of self-control. No longer is our society populated by individuals who can restrain or ‘govern’ themselves. To lack the capacity to control one’s urges or passions is to lack what our nation’s Founders called personal ‘self-go! vernment.’â€

Another person that believes that the good ol days were somehow more moral. I've written before that my mother grew up with an abusive, alcoholic father. No one helped her family. In the fifties, her mom didn't have the resources to leave the man that terrified her.

Women still got pregnant outside of marriage but they either secretly gave birth and put the child up for adoption, married the father or got a secret abortion.

What about segregation? Maybe if people back then spoke thier minds more, it wouldn't have taken until the 1960's for African Americans in the south to be able to sit where they wanted to on the bus.

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Teaching children self-control is a major thing with me, something that I work on with my kids on a daily basis. Losing my own self-control by abusing them is not how I plan to accomplish this.

I agree that the lack of self-control is more of an issue now, mainly because modern people have more options. We have fewer external controls and must control ourselves. I could buy a big screen TV on credit and hook up to cable despite having the ability to pay for neither. I was raised to defer my wants, mainly by example.

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What world is he living in? There have always been people who have engaged in destructive behaviors. The difference is today we are less likely to push those problems under the rug.

“A few decades ago, people were just as human as we are in this decade,†he writes

Duh

Another person that believes that the good ol days were somehow more moral. I've written before that my mother grew up with an abusive, alcoholic father. No one helped her family. In the fifties, her mom didn't have the resources to leave the man that terrified her.

Women still got pregnant outside of marriage but they either secretly gave birth and put the child up for adoption, married the father or got a secret abortion.

What about segregation? Maybe if people back then spoke thier minds more, it wouldn't have taken until the 1960's for African Americans in the south to be able to sit where they wanted to on the bus.

Actually, there were fewer murders per capita in the US in 2007 than there were in 1967. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0873729.html . So he's just plain wrong and stupid.

Edited for riffles.

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Teaching children self-control is a major thing with me, something that I work on with my kids on a daily basis. Losing my own self-control by abusing them is not how I plan to accomplish this.

I agree that the lack of self-control is more of an issue now, mainly because modern people have more options. We have fewer external controls and must control ourselves. I could buy a big screen TV on credit and hook up to cable despite having the ability to pay for neither. I was raised to defer my wants, mainly by example.

I agree, consumerism trains us to want stuff now. Unfortunately for the religious Reich, they have coupled their political fortunes with the party of unbridled capitalism. Who is behind orgs like Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood? Who wants more quality, commercial-free public television for kids? Not the religious Reich, that's for sure. Rush Limbaugh was a big promoter of this book, apparently. What a paragon of self-control he is!

Measuring something nebulous like self-control in the general population is pretty hard though. What's clear is that the crime rate has been going down over the last 2 decades, so his thesis is off.

Edite: riffles. Cannot write today.

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Actually, there were fewer murders per capita in the US in 2007 than there were in 1967. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0873729.html . So if he's just plain wrong and stupid.

To your point, we are likely living in one of the least violent times in history. This is really interesting.

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I have nothing really interesting to add, but I can't believe how stupid the articles in "World Net Daily" are. I hate Joseph Farah (the editor); he's so condescending towards whomever doesn't share his rigid evangelical faith (he probably converted hence his "convert zeal"). "Free Republic" and "WND" I sometimes read just to get my blood pressure up, lol!

ETA: love the main news source for WND. By God, it's the Washington Times, the Moonies-owned rag!

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I have nothing really interesting to add, but I can't believe how stupid the articles in "World Net Daily" are. I hate Joseph Farah (the editor); he's so condescending towards whomever doesn't share his rigid evangelical faith (he probably converted hence his "convert zeal"). "Free Republic" and "WND" I sometimes read just to get my blood pressure up, lol!

Patrice Lewis from the blog Rural Revolution has a column at World Net Daily, referring to herself as a "Real American" or some such shit. Needless to say, her columns are a bunch of self-serving, arrogant twattle.

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Patrice Lewis from the blog Rural Revolution has a column at World Net Daily, referring to herself as a "Real American" or some such shit. Needless to say, her columns are a bunch of self-serving, arrogant twattle.

What is her definition of a 'Real American'. I am guessing that an unreal American is someone who disagrees with her.

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That is why liberals resort to personal attacks, name-calling, accusing, yelling, discrediting, or changing the subject.

Well, because I'm soooooo immature, I guess there's only one response to this.

Ahem.

I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I????

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What is her definition of a 'Real American'. I am guessing that an unreal American is someone who disagrees with her.

Yep, pretty much. She's a twit.